Zadie Smith Quotes

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“The more blessed she felt on earth, the more rarely she turned to heaven.”

“.. and the devil won another easy hand in God's poker game.”

“He talked and talked, the kind of talking you do to stave off the inevitable physical desire. The kind of talk that only increases it.”

“His mind was a small thing with big holes through which passions regularly seeped out.”

“… dressed all in yellow spreading warmth and the promise of sex.”

“Ryan's freckles were a join-the-dot's enthusiast's wet dream.”

“A carefully preserved English accent also upped the fear factor.”

“It was in the shady groves of dictionaries that Jack fell in love.”

“He traced the genealogy of the feeling”

“You always wanted to make it clear you weren't like the rest of us. You're still doing it.”

“So we have to be a bit more, I mean, military about it, like plan.”